CMB-S4

CMB-S4 Next Generation CMB Experiment

Job listings

This page is for advertising positions related to CMB research broadly defined, e.g., postdocs, faculty, laboratory and technical positions. To post positions, please send the description and link to C. Reichardt.  
 

The Institut d’Astrophysique Spatiale (IAS) at Université Paris-Saclay invites applications for a postdoctoral position within its cosmology team. The successful candidate will conduct research in CMB and/or large-scale structure cosmology and data analysis, with potential involvement in the Simons Observatory and Euclid projects,  as well as in other projects with strong participation from the group (e.g. BISOU/FOSSIL, SKA).

 

The Wilson Fellowship at Fermilab seeks applications from Ph.D. physicists of exceptional talent with at least two years of experience beyond Ph.D. The Fellowship is awarded on a competitive basis and is intended to support outstanding assistant professor-level physicists early in their careers. It provides unique opportunities for self-directed research in experimental physics through work on the Fermilab particle physics experiment of the candidate’s choice.

The Fermilab experimental program includes collider and cosmic physics, studies of neutrinos, muons, and research at the intersection of high energy physics and quantum information science, as well as R&D and planning for future experiments. This year we are particularly interested in applications focused on neutrino, muon and collider physics.

 

The University of Melbourne invites applications for a postdoctoral position to work on observations of CMB polarization with the South Pole Telescope. The successful candidate will contribute to delensing and the search for inflationary gravitational waves, as well as projects. A fraction of time will be available for independent research projects.

The Research Associate will repurpose 3.5-meter mm-wave telescopes of the Sunyaev-Zeldovich Array (SZA) at Caltech’s Owens Valley Radio Observatory and use them to search nearby galaxies for transient events at high radio frequencies. The applicant must have experience with radio astronomy instrumentation. The successful candidate will be based (at least initially) at the observatory located near Bishop, CA, which hosts several other radio astronomy projects.

The CMB Analysis and Simulations (CMBAS) group invites applications for a Flatiron Software Research Fellow (FSRF) to contribute to the Simons Observatory (SO) project’s data analysis efforts. The Simons Observatory is a next-generation cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiment located in Chile’s Atacama Desert. It consists of one Large-Aperture Telescope (LAT) and three Small-Aperture Telescopes (SATs), all of which have achieved first light and are now transitioning toward full science operations. SO is entering an exciting new phase of expansion. A National Science Foundation–funded upgrade will significantly increase the LAT’s mapping speed and broaden its science reach to include the transient sky. A complementary upgrade, supported by UK and Japanese partners, will double the number of SATs, further enhancing the observatory’s sensitivity and scientific potential. The CMBAS group is led by David Spergel, President of the Simons Foundation, with Simone Aiola heading the CMB data analysis effort and serving as the SO Data Manager and a member of the Observatory Execution Office, coordinating all software activities across the collaboration. Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro leads the group’s simulation development program. Flatiron Software Research Fellows will play a key role in developing and refining the pipelines and analysis methods used to generate and characterize the SO’s scientific data products. CMBAS welcomes applicants interested in machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) applications.